hyperscale storage

Hyperscale storage is the storage of vast quantities of
information in media capable of increasing in size rapidly, efficiently, and indefinitely. In a data center, hyperscale
storage capacity commonly runs into the petabytes.

Hyperscale storage differs from conventional enterprise storage in several
ways, notably the following.

The sheer scale of the storage space is several orders of
magnitude larger in a hyperscale system than in a conventional system (petabytes versus terabytes).

Hyperscale storage media typically serve millions of users with only a few applications
(sometimes only one), whereas in a conventional enterprise scenario there are often fewer users but
more applications.

Hyperscale storage has a minimal set of features and may lack redundancy, because the goal is
to maximize the raw storage space and minimize the cost.

Hyperscale storage tends to be software-defined,
focusing on a high degree of automation with a minimum of direct human involvement.

Hyperscale storage is used on the Internet and, to an increasing extent, in database applications.
Examples include social media,
Webmail, service-provider storage, HPC
(high-performance computing), analytics, financial services, fraud detection and monitoring
services, weather forecasting, and large government agencies.

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